Edition 24: 1–9 August, 2025

NATIONAL

Night Ride

Kosovo
2013 — 8' / Color

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Synopsis

There is a man who deals with the changing time and loneliness. The man who is living alone suffocates the death anniversary of his wife and calls taxi to travel outside. The taxi driver looks at the situation from the different angles; he thinks and says that people in the socialism lived in better conditions than in the current time. But the man responds saying that socialism was not so good system. Both of them get in the car and they turn back on their own lonely life.

Director Biography

Kamer Şimşek was born in Prizren, Kosovo in December, 1983. He studied for radio and television in Trakya University, Turkey. During his undergraduate education, he made 3 short movies and one of them was awarded for best vision. Towards the end of his studies, he started to work as a camera assistant in a studio in Istanbul. He becomes experienced in making series, advertisements, documentaries, and short movies. After studies he returns to Kosovo where he established Lucida Visual Arts Society, together with his friends.

Director

Kamer Şimşek

Cinematographer

Husamedin Luma

Editor

Husamedin Luma